ENHANCEMENT: Performance ideas: pipelining and compression about java-merge-sort HOT 1 OPEN

Hiya! Project is stable, mature, as I haven't needed changes myself, but there is no replacement that I know of (i.e. I have not written newer package).

If you are anyone else is interested in experimenting with improvements -- performance, usability/ergonomics, configurability, interoperability -- I'd be happy to help in getting those integrated.
Right now I don't have personal itch to work on things, but I still maintain it if someone was to find a bug for example.

Now: on pipelining -- now support for it at this point. Someone actually did something like that for LZF codec I wrote (https://github.com/ning/compress), and the main question there is probably that of modeling of how things should fit together, how to expose tuning wrt threads to use, sync.

As to compression: I think that this is something that can be handled by allowing extensions and does not necessarily have to be part of core package... although I can see how maybe supporting codecs that JDK comes with (deflate/gzip) could be out of the box, as default implementation.
Alternatively this package could be made multi-maven project so that extension compression codecs could be built from same repo, just result in separate jar(s).

Both sound like nice extensions to me.

from java-merge-sort.